Seminar Report

Medical Plastics : Materials, Applications And Processing

For Medical Devices And Pharmaceuticals Industries

External communicating devices

• Blood path, indirect : Devices that contact the blood path at one points and serve as entry to the vascular system 

• IV sets, transfer sets, syringes, BT sets 

• Tissue / bone / dentin : Devices that contact any of these tissues 

• Laprascopes, dental cements, skin staples 

• Circulating blood : Devices that contact circulating blood 

• Intravascular catheters, oxygenators, dialyzer accessories, CPB tubings etc.

Implant Devices

• Bone : Devices that principally contact bone 

• Examples : Orthopedic pins, plates, bone cements 

• Tissue : Devices that contact tissue or tissue fluids 

• Pacemakers, neuromuscular stimulators, ligation clips 

• Blood : Devices that contact circulating blood 

• Artificial heart valves, vascular grafts, drug delivery catheters

Evaluation Framework : 

Surface Contacting Devices